I can understand if in a movie there is one simple sentence and it is totaly corrupted and raises the hairs (that might be a funny translation, I try to make symmetry *g*)... there is only one sentence, why bug a german (or a dictionary) with that... nobody will recognize it (because it's foreign). I guess the same happens a lot with other languages, too...
Why that under Comics? Because I like Sandman. And so I bought some books of the series "Lucifer" from our good friend, the Amazon (*g*). A lot of the first two books (haven't started the third one) is located in germany, but the language is english. (I have) No problem with that, but suddently there are some broken german words, mostly as Skinheads where hitting some poor guys. I can only guess that the german words have kind of a Pawlow-reaction on some people, drawing a line from "german" to "evil". It is something that I have long thought, but it never came so clear from any media thanfrom that "Lucifer" comic.
So... are we german speaking people really *still* considered the baddies? I mean, I can kinda understand about the french being evil (just kidding *g*), but germany is hardly right wing at the moment (heck, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he came from a communist country... that would be Austria, and i don't subscribe to Mr. Schwarzeneggers point of view... there was the Socialist Party in power here, but they are not Communists... more middle-left). So... what is it about german that makes it "evil"? There are worse sounding languages (Finnish comes to mind), and I'd guess there are more Nazis in America (because there are more people) nowadays than in Germany, Austria or Swizzerland (they speak german, too).
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Why that under Comics? Because I like Sandman. And so I bought some books of the series "Lucifer" from our good friend, the Amazon (*g*). A lot of the first two books (haven't started the third one) is located in germany, but the language is english. (I have) No problem with that, but suddently there are some broken german words, mostly as Skinheads where hitting some poor guys. I can only guess that the german words have kind of a Pawlow-reaction on some people, drawing a line from "german" to "evil". It is something that I have long thought, but it never came so clear from any media thanfrom that "Lucifer" comic.
So... are we german speaking people really *still* considered the baddies? I mean, I can kinda understand about the french being evil (just kidding *g*), but germany is hardly right wing at the moment (heck, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he came from a communist country... that would be Austria, and i don't subscribe to Mr. Schwarzeneggers point of view... there was the Socialist Party in power here, but they are not Communists... more middle-left). So... what is it about german that makes it "evil"? There are worse sounding languages (Finnish comes to mind), and I'd guess there are more Nazis in America (because there are more people) nowadays than in Germany, Austria or Swizzerland (they speak german, too).
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